MCC Time to Tangle with Colours - Wk 3

There was a choice of assignments for the third week's Dual Brush Pen homework so that those who had already taken one of Marie's earlier tangling classes, which I have, could choose to tackle something fresh. So, instead of drawing & colouring another "Flower Garden" (see here), I set to work with the "Falling Leaves" project. This incorporated watercolour blending, indirect Blender Pen & direct to paper colouring, Glue Pen Resist & haloing techniques as well as layering of complimentary colours to produce muted tones. The latter was a most interesting exercise as all of my leaves started out watercoloured in various greens & ended up as in the photographs once I'd applied the additional reds, pinks, oranges & yellows. The whole piece is about 6½ x 9¾ inches in size using Daler-Rowney Langton 300gsm Hot Pressed Extra Smooth watercolour paper.

close-up of top section

close-up of central section

close-up of bottom section

As I didn't have any suitable dies or die-cuts to draw round I drew myself some leaves freehand. Another option would have been to use real leaves but the leaves in our woodland are soaking wet because of the heavy rainfall we are experiencing at present.

Gorgeous project!I apologize for repeating myself again but I'm always amazing at your sense of details and humour too ;-) These tiny insects are so wonderful and the patterns on each leaf is like a tapestry from an exotic country!

Hi Paula, like your tangled leaves! Great colouring and the shadow outline is very effective with it! Always enjoys reading your comments but I am sorry that I have not the time to comment often. warm greetz, Miranda

Wonderful artwork Paula, your freehand leaves are glorious and the little bugs give it life. It is full of movement with beautiful colours. This sounds like a great class to do, think I may have a look at the first in the series although at the moment I don't have the time to do much homework. Thanks for sharing.